The next morning, Xia Qingfeng and Xu Xiaoxiao were in the room perfecting the drawings of the distillation equipment, preparing to hand Cang Qiang over to Cang Dao for building.
Suddenly, a servant hurried over and shouted to Xia He: "Sister, please go in and report. An imperial edict has arrived. Please take the lady to the front yard to receive the edict."
Xia Qingfeng was very confused. When did the emperor give the order and it was their turn to follow him to receive it?
The two quickly changed their clothes under the service of the maids, and went to the front yard together.
At this time, the courtyard was already full of people. Looking up, it was Ling Xiaoyu who was standing on the steps holding the imperial edict in both hands. When he saw Xia Qingfeng and Xu Xiaoxiao coming, he smiled warmly at them, and then began to declare: In accordance with the order of the day, I accept my order... Xia Qingfeng listened to the complicated and complicated imperial edict, and the last few points he summarized were that Xia Qingfeng, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Xiping Hou Mansion, Qingfeng, a virtuous and virtuous man with extraordinary intelligence, treated the injured at Chongfu Temple and donated his suturing skills to the court for free. In view of her performance, she was not only rewarded with money and gifts, but also her daughter Xu Xiaoxiao was named the head of the village.
After the imperial edict was read out, there was silence in the front hall, and everyone looked at Xia Qingfeng and her daughter in surprise. How is this going? When did Xia Qingfeng have such a good fortune? "Township owner" can only be enjoyed by the daughter of a meritorious official. How much merit does Xia Qingfeng have that the emperor canonize her like this?
Xu Jingchen looked at Xia Qingfeng and narrowed his eyes: Xia Qingfeng is actually the miracle doctor, it's impossible! They had been married for four years, and although they had already turned against each other in the following three years or so, he knew that Xia Qingfeng absolutely did not understand medical skills. So where did she learn this suturing technique?
Mother and daughter Xia Qingfeng ignored the gazes of others and calmly stepped forward and knelt down to receive the order.
Ling Xiaoyu placed the imperial edict on Xia Qingfeng's hands and said gently: "Madam, please get up." Then he personally helped Xu Xiaoxiao up.
Xu Xiaoxiao pulled Ling Xiaoyu and smiled sweetly, "Senior brother, are you busy? Why don't you have time to accompany me?"
"Yes, my grandfather has arranged a lot of studies for me, and I am very busy every day."
After hearing this, Xu Xiaoxiao couldn't help but pout. Xia Qingfeng looked at it and found it funny. Xu Xiaoxiao would only act like a little daughter in front of Ling Xiao.
Ling Xiaoyu saw Xu Xiaoxiao's cute look and couldn't help but scratch her little nose and said with a smile: "I will pick you up at the beginning of next month and we will go to Chongfu Temple to practice together. I can stay with you for many days." .”
"Really? That's great. It's my birthday on the sixth day of the lunar month next month. Senior brother, can you spend it with me?"
"Really? I have to accompany you. I have to prepare a gift for you." The two little ones just showed their affection like no one else.
After seeing off the grandson of the emperor, Xia Qingfeng was about to return to the backyard with the rewarded property, but Xu Jingchen stepped forward and stopped her.
"What for? These rewards are for me, you won't want to occupy them again, will you?"
Xu Jingchen was so angry that he gritted his teeth, "I don't care about your money, I just want to ask you, where did you learn your medical skills?"
Xia Qingfeng looked at him and said slowly: "I had a great blessing at Chongfu Temple. One night, Buddha suddenly came into my dream and enlightened me. When I woke up, I knew this."
It was still a lie without sincerity, and perhaps Jingchen had no way to refute it. He was also puzzled by Xia Qingfeng's changes, but the explanation just now seemed to make more sense.
In the afternoon, Xia Qingfeng received news from Cang Dao: the dozens of arrested men in black were actually assassinated. The other party had a spy in the sky prison. The spy lit the straw in the prison and wanted to burn these people alive. The Habayashi guards arrived in time, quickly opened the cell door, and wanted to transfer the prisoners. As a result, they encountered assassins. These assassins did not intend to rob the prison, but directly killed the men in black.
The assassins were highly skilled in martial arts, and most of the men in black were killed with one knife. This must be to silence them. Fortunately, the leader of the men in black was interrogated by the Habayashi Guards and was not in prison, so he escaped.
"Brother-in-law, those are our own people, why are we killing them instead of saving them?" Chu Jiaming heard that the third prince arranged for dozens of masters to go to the prison. He thought he was going to save people, but it turned out that they were going to kill people. Silence.
"What if we don't kill them? They have been in jail for a day and a night. It is inevitable that someone will confess. If we are really recruited, the dead cannot testify, so no matter whether they recruit us or not, there is only one way to die." From Ling Haoxuan's point of view, it is normal for people to die if they want to achieve great things. Which emperor's road to the throne is not full of blood and helplessness? Therefore, he doesn't care.
"What now? The captain of the first team hasn't been found yet. Won't he betray him?" Chu Jiaming could only accept the reality.
"It's indeed a bit tricky," he then looked at Xu Jingchen, "What can Jingchen do?"
Xu Jingchen thought for a while and said, "Brother Jiaming, these people are all your subordinates. I think you should know their life experiences! Do you know what the weaknesses of this guard captain are?"
Chu Jiaming thought for a moment and said: "The codename of the captain of this team is Wu Yi. I heard that his parents died early and he has a younger brother at home. He sold himself because his younger brother was seriously ill and had no money for treatment. But he practices martial arts. He is very talented, and he became the captain only after working hard on his own."
"Then it's easy. Go to his brother and cut off one of his fingers, take something personal to him, and send someone in disguise to send him to prison. There's no need to say anything. Wu Yi will naturally know what to do. "Xu Jingchen was smiling, but what he said were cruel words.
Ling Haoxuan patted Xu Jingchen on the shoulder and laughed loudly: "Jingchen's method is very satisfactory to me, so I will do as he does."
Here, in the Tianlao, the Yulin guards who received the news escorted Wu Yi to the Tianlao. Wu Yi saw the bodies of his brothers lying inside and outside the prison. They were either burned to death or had their throats sealed with a sword. I couldn't help but get red eyes. The leader of the Yulin Guards on the side said at this time: "Do you still want to keep the secret for them? You already know your end. You will be silenced like your brothers. Don't you want to do it?"
Wu Yi is now on the verge of collapse. It is at his weakest moment. He has trained with these brothers in the mountains for two years, getting along with them day and night every day, just like his own brothers. He did not expect that his master would be so cruel that he would directly silence them.
In fact, they wanted to bite the poison and commit suicide after waking up, but the poison had been taken away while they were unconscious. They did not want to betray their master, but they still had a glimmer of hope that the master could come to save them.
The master did send people, but they were not here to save people but to claim their lives.
Thinking of this, Wu Yi knelt down and said: "I am willing to tell everything I know. I just hope that these brothers of mine can be buried properly."
The leader of the Yulin Guard nodded in agreement.
